What is the key of point that you're looking in a project and let us know how to improve better as well.
It's just the same with the normal projects but if there are something new that your project can offer and has a real use case then that's gonna be taken by most investors.
You see today that projects are just for the quick profits so as the investors and once you land on an exchange, you'll be dumped by most investors and the same goes with the developers.
There's nothing new to these and that's why if there are projects that are thinking of improving it, you might want to look at the past projects those that have been popular but then became obsolete.
If you are 100% certain that you have a good project, then making deals with the people who have network is the best way to go. You need to grow a lot during the anticipation era, you can't just do a launch and expect people to fund you, you need to keep the anticipation period long and you need to make deals with a lot of people who have their own communities they listen to. The cheapest way is to partner with other projects, you could call it "community partnership" and just share each other on twitter together, that way both of your community will be aware of each other.
Secondly you could start off with giveaways, that would bring in undesirable people but at least look like you got numbers. You also need some money because that way you would be able to do marketing properly. These should be fine, if you are actually good, rest will come, if they don't after all these, then it wasn't really good.